Amjad Hussain Farooqi was wanted for his alleged role in the kidnapping and beheading of Pearl in 2002 and two assassination attempts against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in December 2003.

China's Communist Party calls for better government

BEIJING - China's Communist Party called on its members Sunday to improve their ability to run an increasingly complex nation, complaining in an unusually self-critical statement that some of its own leaders lack integrity and warning that the "life and death of the party" could hang in the balance.

The appeal came in a report issued after a leadership meeting that concluded Sept. 19 and sealed President Hu Jintao's leadership by appointing him head of China's military.

The report by the party Central Committee called on its members to "develop a stronger sense of crisis" about reform, warning that communist rule "will not remain forever if the party does nothing to safeguard it," the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Car bombings wound troops

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two car bombs wounded American and Iraqi troops west of the capital Sunday and a few hours later the U.S. military announced the arrest of a senior Iraqi National Guard commander on suspicion of ties to insurgents, underscoring the challenges to building a strong Iraq security service capable of restoring stability.

The two attackers who died in the twin blasts tried to ram their cars into a National Guard base in Kharma, a town on the outskirts of Fallujah, a U.S. military official said on condition of anonymity.

The number of U.S. and Iraqi casualties was not immediately clear, but a statement from the U.S. Marines said there were no serious injuries among American troops at the base.